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PHPBenelux 2015 revisited

January 26th, 2015

This year, we got off to a very good start. A very good start indeed! PHPBenelux, a first for the entire team, is an amazing conference with so much attention to detail that you feel taken care of from beginning to end.

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On a scale of 1 to "on fire"

September 5th, 2014

In an attempt to become more effective in doing our jobs, we are adopting some of the agile methods. About eight months ago, we started doing standups. With varying success, I might add. One of the things we added to the regular standup questions is "how confident are you about the current sprint?". This article is about how not to answer the question.

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Why WeCamp

August 17th, 2014

A few months ago, the news about WeCamp was released. At first, we knew only the name and speculated on the format. But when it became clear what it was going to be, in combination with who was behind the whole thing, there was no doubt in my mind that this was an event that we needed to be at!

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Thoughts on deploying with Ansible

July 27th, 2014

In order to simplify our deployment procedure, we wrote a role in Ansible (we where using Capistrano before). The role is reasonably complete now and we've begun using it for projects in production. But during the creation there was a bit of discussion on certain points, and I'd like to share some of the insights we've had with you.

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Dutch PHP Conference 2014 revisited

June 28th, 2014

After a few months of waiting it was finally here: Dutch PHP Conference 2014. This conference was quite different than the year before. You see, besides visiting, this year Jasper and I intended to give a talk of our own at the uncon. And we did!

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